When isn’t it a long full day?

I stayed at The Curtis last night, it is a Hilton property and 1950s retro, a lot of fun. Had breakfast, love that Diamond Status, free breakfast and it came with a short stack of pancakes and they were wonderful, well, the one I ate! They dusted them with powdered sugar, yum…

I headed to AM’s house to get my skis, so awesome that he is storing it for me while I’m away, he’s not far from the airport, so I don’t have to go too far out of the way to go skiing. I stopped in to say hello then headed towards the mountains, took a while, the surface streets were a little snowy, but the highways were clear, unfortunately, people were going a little extra slow and there was an accident, so what should have taken about 1.5 hours. It’s ok, I made a stop for some new ski socks, I think they helped with the bruising!

I stopped at Walmart to pick up some supplies [toiletries and food] then headed to the hotel I was originally supposed to stay at, picked up my packet and headed to the Beaver Run Resort, where I upgraded to. Unfortunately, I couldn’t check in until 4pm, so sad…I put the parking pass on my car, parked and got dressed, in the car! I was not quite prepared for skiing, normally I would have left the hotel wearing everything except for my ski pants, this time, I had to start from the ground up, so to speak! Luckily, no one was looking!

The great thing was I was right there at an opening, I got to ski to the chairlift, AWESOME! The bad part… it always takes me forever to get my boots buckled, today was no different…I broke 3 nails trying to get my boots on GRRRR. Someone pointed out that I could move part of the buckle, I’m going to give it a shot tomorrow, unless I can do it myself.

It was so fantastic to ski to the lift, I totally get it now! I went up and hit the slopes and it was fantastic! I skied, I slalomed, I went faster, awesome! I did 6 total runs, feeling more and more confident every time. Only bummer is I dropped my extra phone batter, I did ski near the spot and tried to find it, but I couldn’t get close enough! I saw it when I was going up in the chair! Oh well…I don’t have to worry too much, I am in a ski-in/ski-out, I can come in and recharge!

After six runs, I was freezing! It was about -3 when I got off the mountain, skied to my car and went to check in at the resort, touch and go for a minute, they had a question about my reservation since I had upgraded to the resort. Just in case you didn’t know, ski-in/ski-out means that you are staying on the mountain, you either ski in and out of your room or the resort is right there by the chair lift. You don’t have to drive around to try to find a place to park, AWESOME!

I found a place to park, eventually, in the parking deck, made two trips [luggage, skis, groceries] and walked into my room. Ahhh…I totally get it and I would live here! Well, not full time, but for a week or long weekend! The only odd thing is the bed, right when you walk in the room. Then there is the Jacuzzi tub/shower in the hallway, so to speak, a galley kitchen, then the living room, nice big sofa, overstuffed arm chair, big table and chairs. Ok, the other odd thing… the refrigerator is in the living room.

The view… the slopes and chair lift. Fabulous! It might be tough to say no when I do the time share talk [that’s how I got the room for so cheap for the three days].

I unpacked some stuff, then turned on the bath and had a nice relaxing soak, ahhhh…had a pb&j, yum and after a while, headed out into town for a walk about and maybe see if I was hungry. The town is decorated so pretty, still for Christmas, the trees are still lit, the snow is pretty. I walked up and down the main drag, didn’t find anything that called to me, except for the line for crepes, but after 10 minutes I was cccccold, it was -9, so I stopped by a bar that had a fire pit to warm up until the resort shuttle came by.

Back to the room, jammies and slipper socks to warm up and talk to you! You tired? I am! More tomorrow!